Oct. 6, 2007: Wang gives $1,800 cash to Judy Wong and an $1,800 check to a politician of Wong’s choice, Wang says. This begins a pattern of exchanges in which developer Wang simultaneously gives cash to Wong and writes checks to the political campaigns of Wong’s choosing, so that Wong may “curry favor” with those politicians, prosecutors say.

May 3 2008: Developer Wang records a conversation with Wong in which she says “Normally I don’t approve of graft, but you gotta do what you gotta do to get things to go along,” prosecutors say. The Chinese word that she uses for graft, “Tan Wu,” also means “bribery,” Wang says.